Archive for the ‘Only in Vietnam’ Category
The useless bank account
By Stephen McGrath | Blog, Only in VietnamImage by midorisyu via Flickr I have 100,000 dong left in my wallet. That’s enough for lunch, but only if this restaurant I’m sitting in doesn’t charge me for the face towel. I’d like to use one of the 10 different ATM’s within a square kilometre of the school, but for some reason a Vietcombank ATM card
Take a deep breath
By Stephen McGrath | Blog, Only in VietnamImage by Rock Portrait Photography via Flickr I used to see the week days as my relaxation time, with the weekends as being where work went crazy. Whilst the workload hasn’t changed on the weekends, I come to the end of this one needing to take a deep breath to get ready for one more week of
LookAtVietnam – School violence on the rise
By Stephen McGrath | Blog, Only in VietnamImage by bredgur via Flickr School violence rising, students not given adequate counseling | Look At Vietnam Violence at Vietnamese schools has been on the rise, say educators who argue that a lack of on-campus counseling could be part of the problem. Speaking at an international conference in Hanoi last week, Dr. Phan Mai Huong from the
Chicken, drink-driving and herpes
By Stephen McGrath | Blog, Only in VietnamImage by Rock Portrait Photography via Flickr My second day at Lotteria, and it’s clear that I’ll have to spend more time here as the free VAS canteen food just isn’t doing it for me. After the less than stellar burger yesterday I decided it was time to trial a more Vietnamese-style meal of “beef” egg rice.
Death by Vietlish love song
By Stephen McGrath | Blog, Only in VietnamImage via Wikipedia Imagine Foreigner’s “I want to know what love is” merged with a nursery rhyme and you might be somewhere in the vicinity of a Vietnamese love song. “Vietlish” is what happens once they start throwing English words or phrases into random parts of the verses. I’m sitting in Lotteria, Saigon’s version of Hungry Jacks,
Hair Traders in North Vietnam
By Stephen McGrath | Blog, Only in VietnamTo the clock-watchers out there, yeah yeah I should be lesson-planning, but I need a break for 10 minutes or so. So, here’s another “Only in Vietnam” post. The Look At Vietnam blog has been showcasing what I think is an unusual phenomenon, seemingly most common in the north of Vietnam, parts of Myanmar and Thailand. I’ve
43 percent of business leaders don’t have high-school diploma | Look At Vietnam
By Stephen McGrath | Blog, Only in VietnamA recent survey of 63,000 businesses nationwide showed that 43.3 percent of business managers do not have a high-school diploma, while only 2.99 percent have master’s degrees. via lookatvietnam.com Ah, the ever popular “must have a university degree” mentality continues to run rampant. Wish I could figure out a way to teach the world about the importance
